Legend

It was Ray and Elaine talking behind the inn, but Ray suddenly gives a surprise look because of the word 'artificial life form' coming out of his mouth.

"... where did you hear that?

Slowly release your own hand, which was held in Elaine's white fish-like hand.

It is not already astonishment that is floating in its face, but an eye that tries to discern Elaine's presence.

But even as she was turned to her gaze, Elaine shook her head without looking particularly moved.

"Don't worry. I don't know what I'm going to do about it.... and I have a seed of admonition embedded in my body. You understand best that you can't talk to anyone about information that could put Ray at a disadvantage.

I open my mouth to the word 'seed of the commandments' released from Elaine's mouth, loosening its expression as to whether the sleeping head had finally come to work.

"When I first met Grimm?"

"That's right. Those other than Ray and Seto were stopped in time by the magic of Lord Grimm, but I should say I was fortunate to be unhappy, because my consciousness was normal, although my movements were stopped. That's why I was able to listen to that story. Perhaps the magical stone of the enchanted dragon that I had has resisted the magical effects of Lord Grimm."

"... right"

I nod at Elaine's explanation and lean over to Seto, sighing.

If it was meant to be, it would have to be done with a mouth seal, but the mouth seal process called "The Seed of the Commandment" has already been completed. So as Ray, it was a decision that I didn't need to do anything more.

"... so what do you do as Elaine who found out about it?

"There's nothing I can do. It's just... well, I hope you'll be happy to tell me about Ray's world."

Ray gives me a surprised look at that attitude of Elaine talking about it as if it were nothing.

"Is that okay with you? More like this, like giving away the Power Axe just now for free or some other magic item."

"... Ray, you won't have much trouble underestimating me. Do I look like I'm gonna stick it in someone else's weakness and force that person's possessions?

Ray inadvertently tries to retreat to that power of Elaine, who glances at her with a frown and glances lightly at her. But I couldn't do more than lean on Seto, and in the end, Elaine would stare at me very hard on the spot.

Then Elaine stares at me for a few seconds, and I just surrender and open my mouth with my hands up.

"I'm sorry. Sure, that was my overstatement. I'm not going to insult Elaine. I hope you forgive me."

"Well, as far as I'm concerned, that's what Ray thought of me.... Well, fine. And Ray's career as a wizard apprentice was a stark lie."

"Don't be. But no way, he was pulled from another world in a state of soul and resurrected in a flesh created as an artificial life form... you wouldn't believe what we talked about, would you?

You won't be able to do it first, Elaine nods again small to Ray, who tells him with a grin sarcastically.

"I guess. Even for me, it would have been very hard to believe if I hadn't listened to Ray and Lord Grimm at that time. It would be even more unfortunate if it was Zeppael called the Demon who saved Ray's soul and sent him to this world."

"Even for me, I just didn't think it was a world thousands of years after Zeppyre died. Though I inherited the knowledge of Zeppyre, many of it has become useless in the course of the millennia."

Ray whines as he strokes Seto's back leaning against him instead of the couch.

"That would be so. It's less the same in thousands of years.... By the way, could there be more magic items Ray wears than a wizard apprentice is a lie..."

Ray snorts lightly at Elaine, who inquires about things like fear.

"Oh. Dragon robes, Slapenil shoes, Sucker bracelets....... and the item box mistering. This is all by Esta Knoll, an alchemist who belonged to the Zeppyre Gate."

"Whatever. Well... you know what? He's said to be the best alchemist in history, isn't he? The upper echelons of Ozos, the world's tallest alchemist, say there are many descendants of her disciples and those who draw blood."

"That's probably a lie."

Potsuri, and I didn't know what they said to that word for a moment when they whined, Elaine.

"What do you mean?

"Like I said, I'm taking over Zeppyre's knowledge. The person in it named Esta Knoll had the personality to concentrate on his research if he had time to raise his apprentice, and because of that personality, he didn't marry for life.... Well, what I have is only about Esta Knoll since he entered the Zeppyre Gate, so it's not absolutely because there's a chance he's taking a disciple before that, or drawing the blood of Esta Knoll's relatives."

"... if you take the legendary figure to Ray, it's shapeless."

Elaine smiles unexpectedly at the unexpected character of a person who is, if at all, celebrated as a great man of the past.

Talking for an hour or so like that, the two of us eventually discover a small figure approaching from the inn. Linde is in charge of the inn chores.

"Dear Elaine, I see a customer"

That's exactly what they know as aristocratic, telling Elaine's beauty with her thin cheeks red but in a polite tone.

"Guests?"

"Yes, the guild wants to hear from the workers about this incident."

I recall saying that the guild staff at the entrance to the dungeon would contact the guild.

"If you put it that way, you did.... I didn't expect the person responsible to come himself, but the footwork is unexpectedly light."

"Well, you were young."

"... I'm pretty sure he's older than you or me. What about Ray? You wanna come with me?

"No, I'm sorry for that annoying smell. You can rest your body today."

He smiles and waves away as he leans against Seto.

"Phew. I'm sure I'm the leader of this party. It would also be incumbent on me to explain what happened to the workers. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'll be out of here tomorrow, so stay with me."

Elaine gets up even as she exhales and informs her plans for tomorrow.

Anyway, I haven't taken a break since I passed out due to the ceremonial interruption that Ver broke the Demon Stone. Exactly. I guess even Elaine remembers tiredness.

Not to mention because that body just took in the Enchanted Dragon's Demon Stone.

Nod small against Elaine like that and acknowledge the matter tomorrow.

"Gru?"

Seto, who's been lying quietly as a sofa until now, okay? And he just rings and turns his circular eyes toward Elaine.

I smile like a rose only for a moment at its adorability, gently stroking its head before returning to the inn with Linde.

"I knew it was hard being a party leader."

I dropped him off, and when I put two bags of white gold coins away for mysteries and put my weight in Seto again, I enjoyed the sleep between the bundles.

A waiting area on the ground floor of the inn. So the workers were waiting for Elaine.

A worker who gets up from the couch where he was sitting and gives a compliment.

"Dear Elaine, I apologize for taking the trouble out of my way"

"Never mind. Even I was going to report it before I left town, so it would save me a lot of trouble if you came from there."

Elaine nodded to the worker and sat on the couch opposite her, and after seeing it, the worker made her look at the master of the inn and bring her some tea.

"That's the lodging for nobles and big merchants. I also use a lot of good tea."

"Um, you do use a lot of expensive leaves if you think of it as something you can get in a place like this.... Well, what can I do for you?

There is also elegance in the work of transporting tea to the mouth, and the worker opens his mouth as he stares at the figure as impressed.

"Altar of Inheritance. I want to hear what happened there. Somehow the princess and the general challenged the dungeon, and as a result the number came back nearly half way. As the head of the guild here, I need to know what happened."

"... Hmm. I know what you're saying, but there's something I can tell you, something I can't tell you."

Whimpering, Elaine worries about how she should explain herself inside.

Somehow the aristocrats... that's also the story of the Viscount Sails family who were close to the central figure, the Duke of Kelevel, who betrayed the Kingdom of Mireana and took refuge in the Bestian Empire. It's not something I can talk about in a broad way.

(No, he's probably not even in exile yet, to be exact. My letter and Ver's communication, that's a battle between getting to Father and Viscount Sayles sooner)

A worker who shows a bare gesture of thinking a little about Elaine's words.

He's young enough to be in charge of the guild just outside the dungeon. I immediately understand and nod small that Elaine's remarks have political intentions.

"Well, then I don't mind just what I can talk about"

"Well... basically, two of my men got hooked up in a dungeon trap or got attacked by a monster and died."

"... traps and monsters, is it"

"Oh. It's a trap and a monster.... you know what I'm talking about? It's better for you if you keep it that way."

Two people looking at each other for a few seconds, no, a few dozen seconds. The tension fills the surroundings as if they were slashing each other on the spot, even though they're just gazing at each other.

"... ok. Even with me, I don't want to get involved in the political story. If that's what Elaine says, I will."

"I'm sorry. Let me deliver some as a reward later."

"No, I don't care… but if you can support me because I'm such a neighborhood guild at any rate, I'd welcome it."

A worker who smiles as nicely as a lie because of earlier tensions. Elaine laughs at that, too.

We have each other smiling, but we both have that smile somewhere empty. The worker is a smile that should also be described as a sticky smile, and Elaine is a doll-dyed smile somewhere because of its beauty.

Not a smile from the bottom of my heart, but a smile that floated only liturgically. I'm not laughing from the heart, I'm laughing just at the look on my face.

While we understand each other, we don't give out what's at the bottom of it.... No, I can't get it out.

That, even as Ray smiles suspiciously in his eyes when he sees it, Elaine takes the card out of her hip porch and puts it on the table.

It was borrowed from a worker before the dungeon entered, giving the holder the appropriate authority.

"Then I will return this card as well"

"Thank you. Was it helpful?

"Oh. Thanks to this card, I didn't have to use my time without darkness in line when entering the dungeon"

"That was above all else."

A worker puts that card into nostalgia with the same grin.

"Returning this card to me means I'm done with the dungeon.... Are you sure you want to think so?

"Uhm. I did everything I had to do here"

"So you're leaving soon?

"I'll tell you soon, but I'm leaving here tomorrow."

A worker with a slight but reassuring look on his words.

He is the son of the Duke of Kelevel, who is somehow the central figure of the aristocracy, and Elaine, who is also famous as a princess general. In the unlikely event that something happened to him in this dungeon, it was possible to predict that the damage would be done to the city, which is probably crossing the village around this dungeon.

Elaine continues the conversation with a similar crop of laughter earlier, even as she weighs inside the worker.

"With that said, if you don't mind telling me what impressed you in the dungeon?

To that sudden question, Elaine carries tea into her mouth remembering what happened in the dungeon she experienced herself.

"Right. We proceeded at the shortest distance to the third floor with the map, but it took a while since then because it was a hand search. The basement 4th floor didn't think there was a forest in the dungeon, and we were going to fight a swarm of water monkeys. The 5th basement floor..."

Put it that far in your mouth and say it for a moment, Elaine.

(You should not mention Lord Grimm. I mean, the same with regard to the infinite loop trap)

"Master Elaine?

"Oh, excuse me. With regard to the fifth basement floor, there was also the effect of the undead nest, so that the smell became useless. The kind of beast man with five senses sharper than man would be particularly severe. The sixth basement floor was troublesome with tons of traps being set. The bottom line is... right, it wasn't a direct fight, but it was unexpected that the silver lion of the Rank S monster was protecting the nucleus of the dungeon.... this is the place."

"Thank you. Elaine's information was very useful, especially since the number of adventurers reachable after the sixth basement was small."

"I don't have to worry about this because it's been so convenient for me."

Then we exchange views about the dungeon for about 10 minutes, and eventually the workers get up.

"I'm sorry, but it's time for me to excuse myself. Anyway, the guild is small, so there are a lot of things with less manpower."

"Well, that was a lot of help this time. As I said earlier, I'm leaving here tomorrow, so this will be the last time I'll see you."

"Yes, I understand."

A worker who gets up off the couch and gracefully graces himself and leaves the inn.

Dropping off behind that, Elaine also heads back to her room.

I felt just so tired that I slept well as I was...... my last night in the village made around the dungeon thus passes.

Note that Ray slept outside until Linde woke him up, and Seto was in a good mood for the first time in a long time to take his time with Ray.